| FEATURE |
32 bit Pro |
32 bit Standard |
16 bit Pro |
16 bit Standard |
DOSWedge Pro |
DOSWedge |
BCWedge |
| Supports all COM ports 1-9. Install on up to nine
serial ports on a PC for data collection from many devices simultaneously. |
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| Support for up to 100 serial ports simultaneously. |
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| Data Transfer by DDE to any Windows application.
Includes an advanced set of DDE commands that allow other Windows applications to take
complete control of all Wedge functions, including serial output functions. The DDE
command set allows you to create extremely powerful device control interfaces from
within any other program that supports DDE, e.g. Excel, Access, etc.
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| Basic Data Parsing Capabilities allow you to split
incoming data into fields. Input only data you need and ignore the rest. |
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| Advanced data parsing, filtering and formatting of any type or
structure of data - even very sophisticated data. |
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| A Powerful Serial Data Analyzer feature allows you to
preview serial data and debug all serial communications problems. |
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| Data Filtering Capabilities let you selectively filter out
non-numeric characters from any field in your input data or ignore specific fields altogether.
The Pro versions have additional filtering options. |
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| Pre-Transfer Translation Tables. Translate incoming
ASCII characters to other characters to specific PC keystrokes. |
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| Keystroke Macro Insertion. Add additional keystrokes or
keystroke macros before, after, or within your serial input data. Keystroke macros allow you to
control where and how serial data appears in the target application program in Keystroke Mode.
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| Automatic Date and Time Stamping. Place date and time stamps
directly in your serial input data. |
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| Up To 20 Button Controlled Output Strings. Program
buttons to either send data strings out the serial port or lower the PC's DTR line whenever
the button is clicked. Use the Output Buttons to send prompt strings, or other control data,
to your serial devices. |
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| Automatic Data Acknowledgment feature sends a string back
to the serial device after each data record has been received. |
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| Timed Automatic Prompting. Have the Wedge automatically
transmit prompt strings or commands at regular timed intervals. |
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| FEATURE |
32 bit Pro |
32 bit Standard |
16 bit Pro |
16 bit Standard |
DOSWedge Pro |
DOSWedge |
BCWedge |
| Fully Selectable Communications Parameters.
110-19,200 baud; 5,6,7 or 8 data bits; 1 or 2 stop bits; EVEN, ODD, MARK, SPACE or
NO parity. Hardware and Software Flow Control. Selectable input and output buffer
sizes from 128 bytes to 32K. |
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| Support for new high speed 16550 UARTs and all available IRQs. |
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| Support for up to 56,000 baud communications.
(All versions support at least 19,200 baud.) |
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| A Pre-Input translation table lets you translate or
remove specific incoming characters before being received or processed by the Wedge.
This greatly enhances the parsing and filtering capabilities. |
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| Support for, and translation of, Binary, Hex or
Octal data. (All versions support ASCII data). |
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| Powerful Math and String Functions. Apply standard and many
advanced math functions to incoming serial data. |
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| Optional "Hot Key" control of all WinWedge functions.
Define up to 50 Hot Keys to transmit prompts at the press of a key. |
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| Virtual Instrument Mode to simulate data from any device. |
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| An expanded set of DDE commands giving you more precise
control over all serial I/O functions directly from within your other Windows application programs.
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| A Disk File Logging Mode allows data to be collected to a file
in the background while another program is in the foreground. |
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| Powerful Data Formatting Functions enable you to format
incoming serial data before passing it on to another program. Custom tailor your data so that
it will be in the exact format required by the receiving application. |
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| Place a "Serial Output Buffer" directly in any application
that supports DDE. For example turn a cell in a spreadsheet into a serial output buffer so anything
you type in that cell would be sent out through the serial port to your device. |
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| TCP/IP support. Collect data from IP port addresses on
any TCP/IP network - ethernet/Internet. |
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| Long files names, true pre-emptive multitasking and other
32 bit features plus over 30% faster than 16 bit versions. |
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| FileWedge FREE. This powerful Windows program sends data
from any disk file either as keystrokes or by DDE into any Windows application. FileWedge parses,
filters and formats file data before inputting it into applications. Log data to disk using WinWedge
Pro then use FileWedge to feed the data into an application later. |
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| FEATURE |
32 bit Pro |
32 bit Standard |
16 bit Pro |
16 bit Standard |
DOSWedge Pro |
DOSWedge |
BCWedge |
